Edited by H.Millesi and R. Schmidhammer 2007 All over the world research is being undertaken to improve the treatment outcome of peripheral nerve lesions. Questions over questions arise. Is autologous nerve grafting still the gold standard for bridging defects? Have alternative techniques for overcoming defects of peripheral nerves reached a level to replace autografting?
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Edited by JACQUELINE SAW J. EMILIO EXAIRE DAVID S. LEE JAY S. YADAV 2007 Since the first carotid angioplasty that was performed in 1980, this technique has undergone tremendous modifications and improvements. Stents for the carotid artery were utilized in the early 1990s, and emboli protection devices were introduced about 2000.
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Marco Lanzetta · Jean-Michel Dubernard (Editors) 2007 The story of this book is quite simple: after the first few hand transplants, we felt the need to have regular meetings so that our clinical experiences would be beneficially shared and serve as a basis to draw some guidelines for the future. In so doing, we soon realised that a huge amount […]
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David J. Goldberg (Ed.) 2007 A Total Approach Facial rejuvenation, once almost solely a surgical technique for the treatment of aging skin, has increasingly become a discipline involving the synergistic use of noninvasive approaches. Today, the nonsurgical approach to facial rejuvenation involves the use of a combination of lasers and laser-like technologies, used in conjunction with fillers and botulinum toxins.
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Felix Bronner, Mary C. Farach-Carson and Antonios G. Mikos (Eds) 2007 The science of bone replacement has greatly advanced in recent decades, but replacing bone with bone tissue rather than with metallic components remains in early development. The current volume, third in the series Topics in Bone Biology, deals with problems inherent in inducing the body cells to accomplish […]
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Richard M. Satava · Achille Gaspari Nicola Di Lorenzo 2007 Tremendous acceleration and changes in our daily medical practice are occurring. Both as doctors and ordinary citizens, we are aware of living in a world more and more influenced by information technology.
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Eric Wahlberg Pär Olofsson Jerry Goldstone 2007 A Practical Guide Emergency Vascular Surgery – A Practical Guide provides a concise guide to managing patients with all kinds of emergent vascular problems. It is not intended to be a “classic” textbook, so the background information given is very concise. The focus is instead on management and treatment, especially open surgical […]
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Mark K. Ferguson, Ed. 2007 An Evidence-Based Approach Why do thoracic surgeons need training in decision making? Many of us who have weathered harrowing residencies in surgery feel that, after such experiences, decision making is a natural extension of our selves. While this is no doubt true, correct decision making is something that many of us have yet […]
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Pieter J. Slootweg 2007 A Practical Introduction Diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the oral cavity is quite often hampered by the fact that this part of the human body is a subject of attention for two different branches of health care: medicine and dentistry. Therefore, there may be an overlap of both expertises in some areas but also neglect of […]
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Brendan T. Finucane Editor 2007 In 1999, Churchill Livingstone published, what I thought was the first text on Complications of Regional Anesthesia. I was subsequently reminded by Daniel C. Moore that Charles C. Thomas published a book with an identical title in 1995.
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